4th Grade
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October 13th, 2023
4th Grade News
Dear 4th Grade families,
We are digging deep into nonfiction reading and students have been working hard on identifying text structures to take meaningful notes that can help them learn from their books.
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
Reading and Learning with Intensity
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Our readers will be learning how to embrace the challenge of Nonfiction Reading by investigating what makes them challenging and developing life-long strategies to tackle the hard parts. To Read Nonfiction Well Coding Nonfiction Texts Nonfiction Text Structures
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Session 3 Homework (Monday, October 16)
Session 4 Homework (Thursday, October 19)
Session 5 Homework (Friday, October 20)
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Estrategias para escribir un ensayo
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los escritores aprenderán a utilizar inducciones para elaborar y hacer crecer sus ideas, también aprenderán a hurgar en sus propios escritos para sacar nuevas ideas o enriquecer sus ensayos. Los escritores usarán cuadros de textos para su tesis y viñetas para dar razones.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Leer durante 20 minutos, sin interrupciones para desarrollar la resistencia a la lectura. Registro de lectura
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Students will be able to solve division problems with remainders.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Students will solve story problems with remainder using different strategies. For example, tile array and ratio table. Then, they will have a forum to discuss the different strategies that they used to solve the problem.
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
What tigers are doing at school..
This week students will continue to make connections between erosion and their past experiences. They will connect their learning to literacy as they look at various extreme weather patterns. Specifically they will connect what they have learned from their previous unit on erosion and build upon their knowledge.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
We’ll use clues to show and understand emotions. We’ll also decide how we would feel in certain situations and learn how others would, too.
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What friends and learners are doing at school...
Use clues to identify my own emotions and the emotions of others.
Describe what an emotion looks and sounds like on the outside and feels like on the inside, including if the emotion is pleasant or unpleasant, strong or mild.
Identify when others express emotions differently or have a different emotion based on the same situation.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Think of a time you had a strong emotion. Why was it strong? What information did the emotion provide you? How did you use it?
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Upcoming Events
Oct. 14
Basketball
Tiger Fun Day
Oct. 18
11:00 a.m. Student Dismissal
Oct. 20
Feedback Folders
Sent Home
Oct. 24
Kindergarten
Parent Workshop
Oct. 27
The Magic of Books
Fall Festival
Oct. 31
Normal School
Day - Uniforms Required
Reminders
Important Dates to Remember:
Early Dismissal 11:00 am - Wednesday, October 18th Fall Festival 5:00 - 9:00 pm - Friday, October 27th Regular School Day - Tuesday October 31st
Special Announcements
October - Calendar
Swimming
Big Questions Day
Meet the Team
Mrs. Lea Silva
4A
Mrs. Cookie Reyes
4B
Mrs. Denise Dukeshire
4C
Mrs. Eva Pérez
Fourth Grade
Spanish Lead
Ma. Gabriela Blandón
4th Grade Paraprofessional
Javiera Sánchez
4th Grade Paraprofessional
Mrs. Estefania Narváez
Fourth Grade
Inclusion Lead